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Claudio Magris ,
Patrick Creagh
[Paperback 2008]
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In this acclaimed international bestseller, Claudio Magris tracks the Danube River, setting his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, Christianity and Islam. In each town he raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments, from... more
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Joe Sacco
[Paperback 2007]
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Joe Sacco's best-selling follow-up to Palestine in a deluxe hardcover special edition. For use in schools and libraries only. Now available in softcover, Safe Area Gorazde is Joe Sacco's 240-page best-selling opus about war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco spent months in Bosnia in 1995-1996, immersing himself in the human... more
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Dennis P Hupchick ,
Harold E Cox
[Paperback 2001]
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The dramatic, tumultuous, often tragic human events that erupted in the Balkan Peninsula following the collapse of communism between 1989 and 1991 have captured the Western world's attention throughout the past decade. "The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Balkans" provides 50 two-color, full-page maps, each accompanied by a facing... more
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Lesley Blanch
[Paperback 1993]
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Book jacket/back: This is the magnificent account of the people of that exotic land, the Caucasus, their heroic leader Shamyl and their courageous thirty year fight to stem the tide of Russian Imperialism. It is also a history of 19th century Russian expansion that does much to explain the Russian... more
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Robert C Tucker
[Paperback 1998]
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Stalinism was a system that embraced all facets of political and social life. In this book numerous scholars present their interpretations of Stalinism and its influence on all areas of comparative Communist studies, from history and politics, to economics, sociology, and literary scholarship. In the years since Stalin's death, his... more
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Mark Cornwall ,
R J W Evans
[Hardcover 2007]
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This volume presents fresh and original writing on the history of Czechoslovakia, a state neglected in British historiography, but which is vital for understanding Europe after 1918. The country twice lost its independence, firstly to Hitler's Germany and then to Stalin's USSR - events that sent shock waves through the... more
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Christopher R Browning ,
Richard S Hollander ,
Nechama Tec
[Hardcover 2007]
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Author Richard Hollander was devastated when his parents were killed in an automobile accident in 1986. While rummaging through their attic, he discovered letters from a family he never knew -- his father s mother, three sisters, and their husbands and children. The letters, neatly stacked in a briefcase, were... more
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Timothy Judah ,
Tim Judah
[Paperback, 2nd Edition]
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This wide-ranging, scholarly, and highly readable account opens with the windswept fortresses of medieval kings and a battle lost more than six centuries ago that still profoundly influences the Serbs. Judah describes the idea of "Serbdom" that sustained them during centuries of Ottoman rule, the days of glory during the... more
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James J Sadkovich
[Hardcover 1998]
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This book is a unique contribution to both media studies and contemporary politics. It analyzes the American media's structure and its role in shaping perceptions of the crisis in the former Yugoslavia, and looks at the key issues involved, from self-determination to genocide. Sadkovich sees the failure of the U.S.... more
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Jonathan Luxmoore ,
Jolanta Babiuch ,
Jolante Babiuch
[Paperback 1998]
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Introducing previously unpublished documents, The Vatican and the Red Flag examines the Catholic Church's confrontation with communism from the French Revolution to the post-WWII period. It also details the life of Karol Wojtyla, who as Pope John Paul II is the first Eastern European pontiff. Authors Jonathan Luxmoore and Jolante... more
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Patricia Kennedy Grimsted ,
Charles Kecskemeti
[Paperback 2001]
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The collapse of the Soviet Union and the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II have brought attention to the displaced cultural and archival heritage of many nations. The situation of Ukraine provides a striking example of the many international problems involved in questions of restitution. Patricia Kennedy... more
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Mark Kurlansky
[Paperback 2002]
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Despite the horrors of the Holocaust, decades of Soviet dominance, the rise of neo-Nazism, and a resurgence of anti-Semitism, Jewish communities have been recreated throughout postwar Europe. In A Chosen Few, Mark Kurlansky visits the homes and lives of those Jews who have returned or remained, and explores the many... more
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Sheldon R Anderson
[Paperback 2000]
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Barbara Jelavich
[Paperback 1983]
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This volume discusses the history of the major Balkan nationalities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Volume I discusses the history of the major Balkan nationalities. It describes the differing conditions experienced under Ottoman and Habsburg rule, but the main emphasis is on the national movements, their successes and failures... more
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Vladimir N Brovkin ,
V Brovkin
[Paperback 1998]
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In "Russian After Lenin," Vladimir Brovkin offers a comprehensive cultural, political, economic and social history of developments in Russia in the 1920s. By examining the contrast between Bolshevik propaganda claims and social reality, Brovkin explains how Communist representations were variously received and resisted by workers, peasants, students, women, teachers and... more
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Catherine Andreyev ,
Ivan Savicky
[Hardbound 2004]
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Esther Benbassa ,
Aron Rodrigue
[Paperback 2000]
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Praise for the French edition: "The most complete and thorough historical synthesis ever written in a European language on the Jewish communities of the Balkans and Turkey."--Michel Abitbol, "L'arche" "A rich and too-little-known history that successfully avoids twin snares: the myth of the irreparable decadence of oriental Judaism and the... more
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Pal Pritz ,
Thomas J De Kornfeld ,
Helen D Hiltabidle
[Hardcover 2005]
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L?szl? B?rdossy, the Hungarian prime minister who proclaimed war against the Soviet Union and was later executed as a war criminal, remains a controversial figure. P?l Pritz offers readers a rare, balanced interpretation of his life, along with documents from his postwar trial.... more
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Alexander Werth
[Paperback 2001]
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Sunday Times war-correspondent Werth spent four years in the Soviet Union during WW2. He traveled widely, interviewed Russian officers and enlisted men, civilians and German prisoners. His diary entries and description of why and how the Russians managed to turn back the Nazi invasion make this a fascinating book to... more
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Karen Dawisha ,
Bruce Parrott
[Paperback 1994]
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This book focuses on the central role of Russia in this new world and surveys the possibilities for future alignments both among the new states and between the new states and their neighbors. It identifies the key issues and relationships that will determine the long-term political stability and economic growth... more
